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Band of Brothers: New Frank Marshall HBO Doc Sheds Light on the Bee Gees

Features Film Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|December 8, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—While the Bee Gees are most closely associated with disco music thanks to their involvement in the 1977 landmark soundtrack album, “Saturday Night Fever,” that featured five of their songs, the band, fronted by three British/Australian brothers, alrea [...]

‘Botero,’ ‘Claudine,’ ‘District 9,’ ‘Grant,’ More Available on Home Entertainment This Week

News TV Features By Angela Dawson|October 12, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Movies A Regular Woman Based on a contentious, real-life “honor killing” in 2005 that shocked Germany, Sherry Hormann’s “A Regular Woman” arrives on DVD/Digital Tuesday Oct. 13, from Corinth Films. The crime drama offers a novel and captivatin [...]

Disney+ Launches Nat Geo Space Series ‘The Right Stuff’

News TV Features By Angela Dawson|October 9, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It seems TV viewers can’t get enough of space adventures. Perhaps it’s because so many of us have been stuck on the ground for months due to the global health pandemic. We’ve been able to escape for a little while watching exciting cosmic adventures i [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse TV Chief Talks Slate of Films for Welcome to the Blumhouse Rolling Out this Week

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|October 6, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Amazon Prime Video’s “Welcome to the Blumhouse,” a program of eight unsettling, genre movies produced by Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios, premieres this week with “Black Box” and “The Lie,” scheduled for ex [...]

Tennis Champ Venus Williams Takes a Swing At Football Player Rob Gronkowski on ‘Game On!’ Game Show

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|May 24, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Tampa Bay Bucs tight end and three-time Super Bowl champion Rob “Gronk” Gronkowski (formerly of the New England Patriots) is set to take on world tennis champ Venus Williams in competition. You read that right. The two sports giants are captains of th [...]

ESPN Films’ ’30 for 30′ Series Set to Roll Out ‘Lance,’ More Sports Docs Soon

News TV Features By Angela Dawson|May 6, 2020 |0

Just as ESPN Films moved “The Last Dance” earlier to fill the void that live sports left, ESPN Films’ Peabody and Academy Award-winning “30 for 30” series is premiering three new documentaries, two of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, that will air on Sundays through June 14. Followi [...]

Josh Dela Cruz Joins ‘Blue’s Clues’ Reboot

Features TV Features By Peter Gonzaga|November 7, 2019 |0

By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—When he was younger, actor Josh Dela Cruz used to watch “Blue’s Clues” with his sister. Coming full circle, the Broadway actor is now the new host of the rebooted popular Nickelodeon show now dubbed “Blue’s Clues & You.” It’s a dream come true [...]

Teen ‘Voice’ Winner Chevel Shepherd is a Country Tinkerbell

Features TV Features By Lynn Barker|December 21, 2018 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features ALBUQUERQUE—From the small town of Farmington, N.M., 2018’s winner of NBC’s “The Voice” is Chevel Shepherd. (She pronounces her first name “Chevelle”) The 16-year-old credits the popular TV talent show with helping her grow as a confident performer comfortable on [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning Documentarian Sets her Lens on Jane Fonda

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|September 21, 2018 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Susan Lacy has profiled numerous luminaries over the years in her documentaries, including conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein, filmmaker Steven Spielberg, musician/singer Joni Mitchell and actress/singer Judy Garland. She created the “American Maste [...]

Jane Fonda Revealed in ‘Five Acts’ Documentary

Features TV Features By Judy Sloane|September 19, 2018 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In her 80-plus years on this planet, Jane Fonda has lived many lives—ingenue, sex symbol (“Barbarella”), Oscar winner (for her performances in “Coming Home” and “Klute”), fitness guru and activist, being labeled “Hanoi Jane” when she visited communist N [...]